Two former Parramatta Eels players are accused of harbouring semi-automatic weapons and possessing more than half-a-million dollars in cash after dramatic arrests in Sydney's Centennial Park yesterday.

Anti-tank mine shuts part of autobahn

A stretch of autobahn in eastern Germany has been shut down to allow experts to dispose of a World War II-era anti-tank mine found only 200 metres from the busy highway.

The Lausitzer Rundschau daily reports that the A15 highway near Cottbus, close to the Polish border, was affected after authorities found the mine and 17 grenades in a field. Explosives experts were preparing to destroy the munitions in place.

More than 70 years after the end of the war, Germany is still littered with unexploded bombs and other munitions. Those are found especially in the east, where the fighting against the Soviet Red Army was fierce in the final weeks of the war, and in the big cities.